While unplugging a device the TTM shrinker implementation needs a barrier to make sure that all concurrent shrink operations are done and no other CPU is referring to a device specific pool any more. Taking and releasing the shrinker semaphore on the write side after unmapping and freeing all pages from the device pool should make sure that no shrinker is running in paralell. This allows us to avoid the contented mutex in the TTM pool implementation for every alloc/free operation. v2: rework the commit message to make clear why we need this v3: rename the function and add more doc as suggested by Daniel Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210820120528.81114-2-christian.koenig@amd.com
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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